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...Wang and his colleagues made friends with the employees of the nearby Zhengzhou Ceramics Plant, which produced dinner plates for export to the U.S. Workers there say they received no severance pay after the plant went bankrupt and merged with a private company, so they took over the factory two years ago. Police tried to force them out; workers from Wang's factory joined in to keep the siege going. Recently, both factories were shut down. Shi Jian, the ceramics factory workers' leader, went into hiding after receiving threats to his life. In February 1999, he returned home to visit...
...difficult for her parents, who remember a time when Korea was as poor as Bangladesh. But she is one reason why Korea's economy, amid global recession, is currently outperforming nearly every other country's in the world. Churning out everything from ships to semiconductors, Korea emerged as an export powerhouse during the last decade?it was international trade that allowed the country to bounce back from a brush with disaster during the Asia crisis four years ago. In the current downturn, things are different. With demand from the U.S. skidding, Korea has not only not tanked...
...York City and London. Young, cutting-edge international designers, DJs and artists beg to visit his apartment-studio when they're in town. Heck, even kids on the street ask him for his autograph. Now that he's earned a reputation as Hong Kong's most creative export, other local toy designers are following in his skate-shoed steps. So what's the appeal? "You get addicted to completing a set or owning something few in the world have," says Joey Ho, 27, a marketing executive who has spent $4,000 on Lau booty...
...offended their sophisticated moral sensibilities with his plainspoken bluster about "the axis of evil." But last week, U.S. unilateralism struck an especially sensitive part of Europeans' anatomy: their pocket books. In a decision that seems directly to contradict the free-market gospel that is America's chief political export, Bush imposed protectionist tariffs of 8% to 30% on foreign steel...
...Caspian countries have until June 20 to set up a long-term survey program and to boost their efforts in combating illegal harvesting and export, as well as in regulating their domestic trade, which also includes sturgeon meat. The 2002 export quota will be 9.6% lower than the 2001 levels, totaling some 142 tons of caviar from five sturgeon species. The legal trade is estimated at about $100 million a year - a figure believed to have been dwarfed at least 10 or 12 times over in recent years by the illegal catch in the four former Soviet republics...